Overview

This rich collection of articles pays homage to many of the remarkably broad and interdisciplinary interests embodied in the work of Professor Georges-Jean Pinault. It contains not only historical and synchronic linguistic studies of numerous ancient languages---especially Tocharian, Sanskrit, Greek and Uyghur---but also editions of several recently discovered texts from Central Asia that contribute to the burgeoning fields of Buddhist and Silk Road studies. Lyuke wmer ra is a must-read for all scholars interested in the intersection of language, literature and religion of ancient and medieval western Eurasia.

Full Product Details

Author:   Hannes A. Fellner ,  Melanie Malzahn ,  Michaël Peyrot
Publisher:   Beech Stave Press Inc
Imprint:   Beech Stave Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 18.30cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 26.00cm
Weight:   1.436kg
ISBN:  

9780989514293

ISBN 10:   0989514293
Pages:   612
Publication Date:   05 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Table of Contents

"Preface Bibliography of Georges-Jean Pinault List of Contributors Douglas Q. Adams, The dual endings of the verb in Tocharian B and their Proto-Indo-European background Émilie Aussant, The Vyakaran » . ic descriptive model and the French grammars of Sanskrit Nalini Balbir, À propos d'un lapidaire prakrit Alain Blanc, L'histoire compliquée de l'adjectif grec ¢????Ò? Václav Blaek, A hypothetical Tocharian contribution to Chinese astronomical terminology Joel P. Brereton, How the Gayatr » »? became the Gayatr Gerd Carling, Flat mirror or well-shaped disc? Tocharian A tapaki » (B tapakye » ) and A mukär* .dam Alvah Catt, A newly identified Tocharian fragment of the Tridan. d. isutra Ching Chao-jung, He sat down on the grass under a Nyagrodha tree: On the Kuchean word atiyo* ? atiya* in Kumtura mural painting captions Éric Dieu, Accentuation récessive et accentuation columnale en grec ancien, avec quelques considérations sur la loi de limitation Hannes A. Fellner, Polar life in the Tarim Basin José Luis García Ramón, The development of the labiovelars in Greek: Sound change, areal diffusion, and the myth of the three phases Romain Garnier, The PIE word for 'name' Laura Grestenberger, The ín-group: Indo-Iranian ín-stems and their Indo-European relatives Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Dieter Maue, and Fang Wang, Der neugeborene Bodhisattva besucht das S´akya-Heiligtum: Zu den Bildern und der Treppenhöhle von Kizil Athanaric Huard, ""pattitrukalle kari´skenta wärpanamane"" ou comment honorer un moine tokharien Stephanie W. Jamison, False segmentations and resegmentations in the Rigveda: Gemination and degemination Jay H. Jasanoff, Pre-Toch. *h1 ludh -néu-ti 'goes out' Ronald I. Kim, Remarks on linguistic variation and change in Tocharian A Jared S. Klein, The Old Church Slavic background of Russian a Bernhard Koller, Question particles and the left periphery within Tocharian syntax Frederik Kortlandt, Tocharian B ste, star 'is', skente, skentar 'are' Jens Peter Laut and Ablet Semet, Neues zum ??. Kapitel des altuigurischen Maitreyasamiti-Sutra (Maitrisimit nom bitig) Claire Le Feuvre, Védique vádhri-, v ? r´s . an-, dharú » -, grec *????, ¥????/???? et ?Á???: Conversion et dérivation Alexander Lubotsky and Alwin Kloekhorst, Indo-Aryan a)u? artanna in the Kikkuli treatise Melanie Malzahn, Back to an old, but not decrepit explanation of Homeric Greek ?""??» Vincent Martzloff, Vestiges du participe parfait en *-wos-/-us- en latin et dans les langues sabelliques? Audrey Mathys, Participes présents, noms d'agents et langue poétique dans Beowulf H. Craig Melchert, Hittite neuter i-stems. Alan J. Nussbaum, Persephonology and Persemorphology: ??????Ò??/?????????? etc. 'Sheaf Thresher' reanalyzed Norbert Oettinger, Die Bedeutung von vedisch ´svañc Hirotoshi Ogihara, Agama texts transmitted to Kuchean Buddhism Birgit Anette Olsen, Latin -ll- and gemination by laryngeal Daniel Petit, On the secondary cases of Baltic and Tocharian Michaël Peyrot, On a festive occasion: The inflection of Tocharian B eks . alye and morphologically related words Elisabeth Rieken, Anatolische Fruchtbarkeit, urindogermanische Männer und die Wurzel *men- 'hervorragen' Nicholas Sims-Williams, Chotano-Sogdica III: Old Khotanese u, -u, -u Carmen Spiers, La malédiction de l'observateur (upadras. t . ár-) dans l'Atharvaveda Brent Vine, biass biítam, valetudinem vitam: On alliteration in Italic curse texts Michael Weiss, Barley in Anatolian, Tocharian, and elsewhere: A fine-grained analysis Jens Wilkens and Hans Nugteren, Notes on Old Uyghur lexicography and etymology Kazuhiko Yoshida, The Hittite pl. preterites in -ar revisited Peter Zieme, Das letzte Blatt der Sängimer Einleitung zum Maitrisimit nom bitig und ein tocharisches Wort Stefan Zimmer, Le suffixe gaulois *-»eto- Index Verborum Index Verborum"

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions